#alda rambling

[gaminegay]

Fun sunglasses are guaranteed to probably not make your day worse

#alda rambling #alda drawing

[32hive]

why is this guy always juggling

#alan alda #fynn rambles

[animnightmare]

Every day I think about how great the mash actors were. Expesually Mike Farrell, all the activism he did (does?). And those photos of Loretta Swit and Alan Alda at protests. And David Ogden Stiers speaking up for people who stutter.

These people mean so much to me. Even without MASH I love every single one of them.

#I have some mixed feelings on gary burghof but I think hes a good guy anyway #an interesting fellow #My mom informed me his sons nickname is sonar #and thats so adorable #rambles #mash #alan alda #hawkeye pierce #mike farrell #bj hunnicutt #loretta swit #margaret houlihan #david ogden stiers #charles emerson winchester iii

[oopswrongaccountsoz]

Guys this is the most cringe I've ever been but we should start making MASH self inserts. We get to subject them to the horrors of war AND we get to make them make out with Alan Alda.

#mash #mashposting #mash 4077 #mash fandom #Hawkeye #Benjamin Franklin Hawkeye Pierce #bj hunnicutt #radar o'reilly #father mulcahy #klinger #max klinger #margaret houlihan #korea #korean war #rambling about my old man shows #i heart alan Alda #alan alda

[loliwrites]

Me, through the entirety of The Mephisto Waltz: Alan, no, you beautiful himbo!

#not a fic #loli rambles #alan alda #mephisto waltz #it says horror #but something told me I would be fine #and I was not wrong #ain’t he just a beautiful himbo #also but that shot of his hands #you know the one #they so large and in charge

[ryanloveshawkeyes]

This may sound pathetic but I don’t give a shit. I have pretty low self esteem and even downright dislike myself sometime. But the fact that Hawkeye, a character I care soo much about, said I helped him and in a such a genuine sounding way really made me feel real warm and fuzzy inside and helped feel a bit better about myself. Call this cringe all you want I don’t fucking care. This really helped me mentally I’m not ashamed to say it even if it is cringe.

So uh yeah, from the bottom of my heart, thank you Alan

#m*a*s*h #hawkeye pierce #alan alda #autistic rambling #fuck cringe culture my tv friends are real in a way

[remyfire]

Is it really a MASH fanfic if I don't let Hawkeye monologue

#in the spirit of alan alda himself i will simply allow hawk to mosey his way to a conclusion while we wait in breathless anticipation #chapter 5 is going to be fucking 10k words long i can feel it #refuse to cockblock my readers for yet another week just because hawk needs to be thoughtful and sad and introspective #my ramblings

[alexa-crowe]

3/5 scullys spotted in west wing so far...

#bill jr. was a random congressman #bill sr. was an evangelical christian running in the republican primary & almost was alan alda's vp #missy is working for alan alda's campaign telling him to campaign on no gay marriage #i didn't see it was her bc the hair and outfits are so different! #rambling

[variousqueerthings]

Was thinking about what you said about the likelihood BJ never sees any of them / Hawkeye again, and besides the very interesting cocktail of emotions that idea makes me feel (agreement and denial at war, essentially), it inevitably got me thinking about the Trapper & BJ comparison again.

I think about BJ calling out, I'll see you in the states, I promise! and the smile he wears. and I think the reason it hits so hard is bc in the moment when he says it, he absolutely does mean it? the flush of emotion in those big life moments can make everything seem undeniable e.g. "you mean a lot to me, so of course we will see each other again". but ofc people don't live in those big life moments.

it's so easy to envision BJ finding a way to integrate Korea into the greater lie that is his life (easier to do when it's over, in the past and subject to whatever framing he chooses to give it). the truth he can't face in the moment of goodbye is that it really IS goodbye, that Korea-as-it-was and Hawkeye do not fit in the life he told himself he burned to get back to.

(Hawkeye was so tired, I got the impression he implicitly understood all this about BJ and wearily accepted it even though it hurt -- another way GFA knocked me down; sometimes people are not as strong for the people they love as they'd hope, and sometimes you just have to accept that it's going to hurt and there's nothing to be done.)

With Trapper, I think it is also very likely he never sees Hawkeye again, or at least not for a very long time. But I don't think he ever lied to himself about it; he seemed like a "ripping the bandaid" type. the pain of not seeing hawkeye again is one he is willing to confront and accept (and inflict?)

(...apologies, this didn't end up being as coherent as I'd hoped, I sat down with coffee on my break and started rambling in your inbox lol)

OK FRIEND WE ARE HERE WE ARE QUEER WE ARE (STILL SICK AND RUMINATING OVER YOUR WORDS BUT I GOT ABOUT FIVE HOURS SLEEP LAST NIGHT BUT I THINK THAT BRINGS OUT MY BEST RAMBLES SO!)

"I think the reason it hits so hard is bc in the moment when he says it, he absolutely does mean it" <- oh heck yes, BJ is -- to me -- the character on this show who faces all of this experience the least, including the bits that, despite everything, were good. he's got that increasingly at-odds-with-his-outbursts genial type of "everything will be fine" attitude right up until the last moment we see him.

something about the best lies are the ones we believe ourselves and the things he's going to be slapped in the face with when he gets home, despite knowing that it's not the home he left (also do we think he shaves off the moustache, yay or nay? if he does, I put that down to the commitment to put on the "nice young husband/father/veteran/doctor/community man" man again, for better or for worse, but if he keeps it, I'll assume it's his one concession, because I doubt he'll actually properly talk about anything).

Trapper was weary and pragmatic and (correctly) pessimistic way back in ceasefire (although he allowed Hawkeye to be hopeful for the most part, I like the read that Trapper tries very hard to not bring Hawkeye down, but occasionally how he really feels just slips out), not to mention the way he talked in mail call.

Who was it that said Trapper's speech about the war in mail call is basically Hawkeye's journey's-end by s11, because um... ouch.

I just watched my first Mike Farrell interview yesterday (the first interview I've seen with any cast member except for Alan Alda, and it was very emotional, but at least I didn't tear up as Mr Farrell himself did!) in which he said that he imagines they'll see each other at least once again, and that BJ would "walk across America" to see him -- but then he also added that it wouldn't be same, which was quite a sad little amendment to what until that point seemed like his personal BJ/Hawkeye is end-game headcanon.

Whether or not BJ and Hawkeye do see each other again (and purely geographically, there's a higher chance of Hawkeye bumping into Trapper, especially considering the fact that Charles is in Boston and I like the idea of Charles and Hawkeye getting surprisingly close after the war -- surprising to them of course, they have more in common than they'd admit!) I would love to know (but would be afraid to ask) Mr Farrell what he feels about how they left things, and how that might play into one or two odd reunions.

I've gone deep down a rabbit-hole of thinking about all of this in terms of BJ's issues (and Hawkeye's issues -- I say this over and over again, but was BJ wrong when he felt like he was Trapper's replacement, and to rage against the box he'd been put into that didn't really allow him his own personhood. On a meta sense, if Hawkeye knows they're in a haunted narrative, then BJ specifically is aware that he is Trapper's shadow and he doesn't like it! and I don't think it helped with everything else that was going on) and so the idea of fluffy mutually healing BJ and Hawkeye doesn't really gel with me, because they've hurt each other -- and BJ has really hurt Hawkeye, sometimes in very pointed, somewhat vindictive-seeming ways -- a lot!

But would BJ romanticize it in his head after he got back and real life there got hard to handle (as I imagine it will for him)? Would he smooth out the rough parts and -- who knows -- create outright lies to fix things (in which BJ Hunnicutt creates the ultimate AU) -- he and Hawkeye were the best of friends after all, and he says in their last scene that he doesn't know how he would have made it without him (I cannot go back and look at the wording, I cannot go back and look at that episode yet, I'm not strong enough!) so he's not wrong when he remembers just how important Hawkeye was to him.

The ways in which Hawkeye at times becomes a kind of stand-in for Peg (or, that is, the wife that BJ has in Korea -- I said this in another post, but I want to reiterate that I use "wife" deliberately, because I hc BJ veering wildly between acting with Hawkeye as his male best friend, and BJ treating Hawkeye like his put-upon spouse, because he's just... real fucked up about his actual wife, but then also at times they're a gay couple), versus the idea that Peg could start to be the butt of comparisons to Hawkeye?

I'd have to think about that one some more, now I've just written it. It depends on the Flavour of post-war fucked up BJ.

Anyway, Mike... Mike, care to go into detail about it not being the same? Do you think BJ will be able to live a life of benignly empty oppressive polite middle-class heterosexual suburbia after all of this? Would he just... carry on, living the dream (the dream here being used as in a literal sense that he builds the fantasy to cope)?

#bj hunnicutt #MASH #goes on the *saddest version of events* musing because i like it #also as i am being reminded: bj was fresh out of residency when he was drafted... he's not that old #he was doing it all Right and By The Book and now he has to reconsider the whole fabric of his life off the back of continuous trauma #(and a possible gay awakening depending on how you take him and hawkeye -- i tend to go the *it's complicated* route #because queerness was never quite so simple as being or not being gay -- but it was certainly an awakening of Some kind= #) #long post #MASH meta #goodbye farewell and amen #ive watched MASH

[thebreakfastgenie]

Ok I’ve been trying to find a post of yours where you were talking about watching a film with Alan alda, I think it was directed by him too, I know that’s not specific enough lol, but like you were talking about how he figured out he had Alzheimer’s by a thing he noticed and that’s how they caught it early? I was just trying to find out about that. Sorry if this post was rambly

Not Alzheimer's, Parkinson's!!! He played a character with Alzheimer's, but in real life he has Parkinson's. I think late-stage Parkinson's can include dementia, but it's primarily a physical neurodegenerative condition, and he doesn't seem to be very advanced (based on what he's shared and what symptoms are visible in his public appearances). Catching it early helps, and he did, because of his dreams.

The post is here!

The story is he read an article that acting out your dreams (e.g. in the movie he's dreaming of wrestling a tiger, and really pushing his wife around the bed) can be an early warning sign of Parkinson's, so he went to a neurologist and asked for a CT scan, and the neurologist was kind of skeptical but he turned out to be right. I can't remember where I first heard this story, because he's talked about it a few times, but it probably comes up in the episode of Clear and Vivid with Michael J Fox (which is also very very good). In that episode it sounds like he might have had some other mild symptoms too, so I'm not sure if he went to the neurologist just based on the dreams thing, but that was part of it.

I think he probably acts out his dreams in Betsy's Wedding because he does/did in real life (that's how he is) so was probably doing it back in the 90s, and he didn't get diagnosed until... idk 2011ish? something like that. He wasn't public about it for a few years afterwards (something he also talks about with Michael J Fox).

Most of the roles he's been in since have just ignored it, but they wrote it into Ray Donovan and he actually had to fake symptoms because the character progressed past where he was at in real life.

Also he said his doctors will just assume he's already seen studies because he's always doing science stuff and he's like can you maybe explain this actually.......

#I have a family friend with very advanced parkinson's #so I have an interest #also the ER arc is really good but :((((( #linda ronstadt was diagnosed with parkinsons although I think it was later rediagnosed as something similar #and robin williams too but the autopsy showed it was actually lewy body disease

[thealogie]

tell me you remember that (probably fake?) gary burghoff twitter account that just rambled about how much he hated alan alda

It’s ringing a bell but I don’t remember the tweets clearly. It was clearly a joke account I think but god I wish I could find it again

[gaminegay]

You've heard of cuddling for warmth, you've heard of cuddling to stop bad dreams, now get ready for: cuddling so you have sth to hold and don't curl up like a shrimp in the night making your chest hurt in the morning

#At least I think that's why my chest hurts. Turn into a roly poly in the night #Alda rambling #1-800 my beloved is just a touch too fat for this job

[heartandmusic]

alan alda can ramble on and on in his nasally new york accent all he wants but it will never change the fact that m*a*s*h is by and for THE ILLINOIS GIRLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#and to a lesser extent the ohio girls and missouri girls and iowa girls and indiana girls<33

[animnightmare]

I had a dream where alan alda was in a mathas brothers commercial and I was like "Hehehe! Whats alan alda doing on a mathas brothers couch!!"

#rambles #mash #alan alda

[sorry-i-spaced]

☕️ Since it seems to be a big argument in the MASH fandom here right now, I suppose I’ll go ahead and ask it: What’s your favorite era of the show and why?

Considering the fact that the other night when I was having dinner with my friend and their family and we played a "conversation" game and one of the questions was 'if you could hang with anyone for the day who would it be and why' and I said Alan Alda to ask him about how he played Hawkeye and my friend's dad (who has gotten into MASH) said something about how he didn't like the later seasons and preferred Henry's seasons and I straight up told him that Henry was an idiot..... I think it's safe to say I like the later seasons.

But to answer it more in terms of which seasons, I like probably seasons 5-8 best. Sure I have favorites from the early seasons and favorites from the late seasons (9-11) but I ultimately gravitate to watching episodes from seasons 5-8 the most.

I like the later seasons because they were darker and actually touched on things happening and not just military comedic antics, I feel like sure the later seasons did have comedic scenes but they also knew how to show serious things too

Thanks for the question and thanks for listening to me ramble

#thanks for the ask

[gaminegay]

People go on about good healthy queer rep but I cannot express how much I want unhealthily devoted queer rep. Raise your lover from the dead no matter the cost. Kill to get them to safety. Trade your soul for theirs. Die to reunite with them. I want gothic hyper-devotion codependent lovers

#I'm listening to music rn its giving me illnesses #Alda rambling #Please. Must I draw my own art? Must I write my own narratives? #Shout out to the Arcana for giving me the crazy devotion dating sim love I needed #Like *to me* it's more queer #The 'you're the only one it's only you and I will do whatever it takes even when people hate me for it's